Creeped [verb]

Since 1984, he has stood each weekday in a suit behind a podium with a sheet of notes and delivered more than 400,000 clues, each a minor daily inoculation against the creep of lies — or whatever you want to call them.

I seed you a-stoopin' down aimin' at somethin', and I jist creeped along a little at a time to see what it was.

Up area steps creeped ancient males and females to do what they had done years and years before.

I creeped into the cave, with a candle, the way I used to do.

Then I summoned almost superhuman strength, and creeped up the stairs and out into the court.

It was a joke, but it gave her a funny, creeped-out feeling.

And Uncle Dick chased it, and nen it unwinded itself and creeped under a big rock.

It creeped and crawled among the wagons and carts and horses to Smithfield street.

Every tree-stem I knew by touch of hand, and in my youth I had creeped into every hidie hole that would hold a squirrel.